Dale Salwak, the editor of a new collection of essays, tell us why he wanted to probe this most complicated of relationships, while Judy Carver, the daughter of William Golding – he of Lord of the Flies – sheds light on her father’s difficult relationship with his mother; Charlotte Shane introduces us to Marjorie Hillis, who, in the 1930s, taught American women how to "live alone and like it"; finally, TLS editor Catharine Morris considers the difficult genesis of Latvian literature
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Henry James in LA
On booze and art
Philip Larkin, beyond the grave
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Mind and memory
Emily Brontë's wuthering wilds
Women, in and out of control
Ode to Lee Child – a bonus episode
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Notes on 50 years of the Man Booker Prize
An interview with Tim Winton – a bonus episode
The wildness of Muriel Spark
Russia's blood games
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